Aravind Case Study | Alexandra Allocca

Since its inception, the Aravind group of hospitals had screened 3. Operations Aravind Eye Hospital adopted a unique model in order to try and achieve its vision of eradicating blindness in India.

Eye Care Delivery Model The hospital ran 2 different kinds of hospitals — the main hospital and the free hospital. Main Hospital The Main Hospital functioned like a regular ophthalmology hospital. The hospital provided different kinds of rooms class A, B and C, each with somewhat different levels of privacy and facilities and consequently different price levels.

Treatments performed in the main hospital varied from simple treatments to extremely complex surgeries like retina detachment repair. The cataract surgeries done at the main hospital were primarily the ECCE cataract surgeries that required an operating microscope and were also more expensive since it required an IOL lens.

Free Hospital The Free Hospital provided free eye treatment to the poorer section of the society free of cThis case study addresses Aravind as an innovative solution to eye care in rural India.

Introduction Blindness is a crippling disability that affects 39 million people in the world (Mehta and Shenoy 12). India is a developing country with a high population that is difficult to support through government action alone.

Aravind Eye Health Care Operations

At Fern Fort University, we use Harvard Business Review (HBR) marketing principles and framework to analyze Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight case study. batch visited the Aravind Eye Hospital at Madurai during August and parts of this case are written based on direct observations and interviews by the students.

Social Enterprise Case Series Social Enterprise Institute Northeastern University The Gift of Sight A recent Aravind Eye Hospital research study quantified their economic and social impact on post-surgery Indian cataract patients.